What you’re looking at above are two photographs of a young Stephen Hawking. When Hawking was a graduate student at Cambridge, his relationship with a friend of his sister, Jane Wilde, whom he had met shortly before his diagnosis with motor neuron disease, continued to develop. The couple were engaged in October 1964, Hawking later said that the engagement gave him “something to live for,” and the two were married on July 14, 1965. Continue reading for more interesting historical photographs.
20. The Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
19. Berlin Wall Construction (1961)
18. Las Vegas Atomic Test (1953)
17. Children Eating Christmas Dinner During Great Depression
16. North Korean Refugees Climbing Taedong River Bridge (1950)
15. Hippo Cart (1924)
14. Fidel Castro Playing Basketball in High School (1943)
13. Young Stalin (1902)
12. Stanley Kubrick on Set of “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1967)
11. Ford Theater Where Lincoln was Assassinated
10. African American Soldier (1863-1865)
9. Marilyn Monroe Wearing Potato Sack (1951)
8. Dwight D. Eisenhower Walking Past Tiger Tank After Battle of Chambois in France (1944)
7. American Soldiers in Vietnam (1965)
6. Canadian Artillery Firing During Night at Vimy Ridge (1917)
5. Vietnam Prisoner’s of War Going Home (1973)
4. British R33 Airship (1919)
3. Manchester United vs. Arsenal (1926)
2. Oil Well Fire in Signal Hill, California (1931)
1. Barack Obama with Late Mother Ann Dunham in Hawaii (1963)
